Love is one of the most powerful environmental factors when it comes to developing, growing and staying healthy, so education through affection has been the cornerstone of growth since childhood.
By taking on this educational responsibility, we offer our children the ability to control their chemistry and brain development; That is, we will teach them to control their biology through the influences of their emotional abilities.
- Therefore.
- We have in our hands the opportunity to improve their psychological and physical well-being for the rest of their lives.
- We must only offer them our affection and raise awareness.
- So that in their brains the most wonderful connections flourish.
A study by the University of Washington School of Medicine showed evidence of the importance of love, attention, and affection for children’s brain development.
According to the journal Proceedings, which initially published the research, the experts conducted the study by grouping the parents caring for their babies and the parents who generally did not know about these situations.
Years later, researchers were able to observe using MRI images that children who had been treated with love had more developed seahorses than those who were not treated with such love.
It should be noted that having a small hippocampus poses an increased risk of problems such as depression, stress or dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease, so we must take into account the benefits of raising a child in a loving environment.
To understand this, we need to know that what we mean by emotions is the translation of biochemical exchanges that occur in our brains, as well as the psychophysiological behaviors generated in our body.
In this sense, we need to know that Serotonin is one of the chemicals responsible for producing our emotional reactions, we know that this substance plays a fundamental role in the balance of our mood as well as in situations of stress.
As a result, we will have a better ability to handle conflicting situations, a reduction in impulsivity and aggressiveness, and even in regulating body temperature, blood pressure, digestion and sleep.
Knowing this, we can understand why a simple smile can serve as an umbrella for a child. Experts explain that when someone smiles, the temperature of the cerebral cortex decreases due to contraction of the blood vessels surrounding the facial muscles and, as a result, increases Serotonin production.
It is proven that by lovingly treating our children, we will contribute not only to their good emotional development, but also to the physical, social and cognitive aspects.
With this in mind, we must prioritize certain supports, aids, or attitudes that help our children feel loved and deserve to be loved. Let’s look at some keys.
Children need to know that love is not conditional. So we must avoid messages like “if I do this, I’ll stop loving you, but if I don’t love you even more. “
Since mistakes will always be a part of your life, a child cannot grow up thinking that it will make it more or less valuable. In short, young children should feel loved for who they are and not for what they do.
If we help them understand that the world is not a Disney tale, they will be able to understand and face the reality of where they live, a place where stress and anxiety reign, as well as love and affection.
In this way, we will prevent them from becomes naive, ignoring everything they will find as they mature; making them aware that stress and difficulties exist (always remembering their level of understanding) will help them develop neural pathways that will allow them to better adapt to the world.
Like all kinds of education, emotional education requires examples, so we must teach our children that there are no emotions or invalid feelings, jealousy, envy and anger are normal and natural, just express them in a way that does not interfere with anything. and never exaggeratedly.
As we have mentioned on other occasions, words represent only 10% of the true meaning we mean through emotional communication, so we need to help them understand how their emotions manifest themselves in their speeches, body language, posture and facial expressions.